blkif.h revision 181624 
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2 * blkif.h
3 *
4 * Unified block-device I/O interface for Xen guest OSes.
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26
27#ifndef __XEN_PUBLIC_IO_BLKIF_H__
28#define __XEN_PUBLIC_IO_BLKIF_H__
29
30#include <xen/interface/io/ring.h>
31#include <xen/interface/grant_table.h>
32
33/*
34 * Front->back notifications: When enqueuing a new request, sending a
35 * notification can be made conditional on req_event (i.e., the generic
36 * hold-off mechanism provided by the ring macros). Backends must set
37 * req_event appropriately (e.g., using RING_FINAL_CHECK_FOR_REQUESTS()).
38 *
39 * Back->front notifications: When enqueuing a new response, sending a
40 * notification can be made conditional on rsp_event (i.e., the generic
41 * hold-off mechanism provided by the ring macros). Frontends must set
42 * rsp_event appropriately (e.g., using RING_FINAL_CHECK_FOR_RESPONSES()).
43 */
44
45#ifndef blkif_vdev_t
46#define blkif_vdev_t   uint16_t
47#endif
48#define blkif_sector_t uint64_t
49
50/*
51 * REQUEST CODES.
52 */
53#define BLKIF_OP_READ              0
54#define BLKIF_OP_WRITE             1
55/*
56 * Recognised only if "feature-barrier" is present in backend xenbus info.
57 * The "feature_barrier" node contains a boolean indicating whether barrier
58 * requests are likely to succeed or fail. Either way, a barrier request
59 * may fail at any time with BLKIF_RSP_EOPNOTSUPP if it is unsupported by
60 * the underlying block-device hardware. The boolean simply indicates whether
61 * or not it is worthwhile for the frontend to attempt barrier requests.
62 * If a backend does not recognise BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER, it should *not*
63 * create the "feature-barrier" node!
64 */
65#define BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER     2
66
67/*
68 * Maximum scatter/gather segments per request.
69 * This is carefully chosen so that sizeof(blkif_ring_t) <= PAGE_SIZE.
70 * NB. This could be 12 if the ring indexes weren't stored in the same page.
71 */
72#define BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST 11
73
74struct blkif_request_segment {
75    grant_ref_t gref;        /* reference to I/O buffer frame        */
76    /* @first_sect: first sector in frame to transfer (inclusive).   */
77    /* @last_sect: last sector in frame to transfer (inclusive).     */
78    uint8_t     first_sect, last_sect;
79};
80
81struct blkif_request {
82    uint8_t        operation;    /* BLKIF_OP_???                         */
83    uint8_t        nr_segments;  /* number of segments                   */
84    blkif_vdev_t   handle;       /* only for read/write requests         */
85    uint64_t       id;           /* private guest value, echoed in resp  */
86    blkif_sector_t sector_number;/* start sector idx on disk (r/w only)  */
87    struct blkif_request_segment seg[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
88};
89typedef struct blkif_request blkif_request_t;
90
91struct blkif_response {
92    uint64_t        id;              /* copied from request */
93    uint8_t         operation;       /* copied from request */
94    int16_t         status;          /* BLKIF_RSP_???       */
95};
96typedef struct blkif_response blkif_response_t;
97
98/*
99 * STATUS RETURN CODES.
100 */
101 /* Operation not supported (only happens on barrier writes). */
102#define BLKIF_RSP_EOPNOTSUPP  -2
103 /* Operation failed for some unspecified reason (-EIO). */
104#define BLKIF_RSP_ERROR       -1
105 /* Operation completed successfully. */
106#define BLKIF_RSP_OKAY         0
107
108/*
109 * Generate blkif ring structures and types.
110 */
111
112DEFINE_RING_TYPES(blkif, struct blkif_request, struct blkif_response);
113
114#define VDISK_CDROM        0x1
115#define VDISK_REMOVABLE    0x2
116#define VDISK_READONLY     0x4
117
118#endif /* __XEN_PUBLIC_IO_BLKIF_H__ */
119
120/*
121 * Local variables:
122 * mode: C
123 * c-set-style: "BSD"
124 * c-basic-offset: 4
125 * tab-width: 4
126 * indent-tabs-mode: nil
127 * End:
128 */
129